Earlier this year, the ATO announced that “people who provide ride-sourcing services are providing ‘taxi travel’ under the GST law” and would need to charge GST on the full fare fare as well as reporting income in their tax returns.

The move was spurred on by the Australian Taxi Industry Association (ATIA) who described Uber as “yet another example of multi-billion-dollar companies wanting to make money in Australia but not pay local taxes”.